Pr. David de la Croix, Matthias Doepke and Joel Mokyr published a paper entitled "More than family matters: Apprenticeship and the rise of Europe" on voxeu.org. In this paper, they analyse the role of apprenticeship and guilds in the technological rise of Europe.
Picture: Repro. of painting by (Louis-?)Emile Adan (1839-1937), copyrighted by Braun & Co., N.Y.